Some music simply must be listened to in pitch darkness, immersively, and “This Love” just may be the ultimate song of that kind. It’s one of those songs that has something of the miraculous to it (not least because the album on which it appears, The Space Between Us, is elsewise so overblown as to be practically unlistenable) — tentative, probing, but fully-fledged upper register verse-lines, strung together by dramatic, sweeping strings, and then those elliptical soaring heights to which Fraser ascends so gloriously and in such otherworldly fashion, cooing and gasping, tugging one along in her wake, star-dazzled and exalted and heart-struck and transfixed.
